Scientific partners

St Andrews is Scotland's oldest university, and the 3rd oldest in the English-speaking world. A new environmental economics research group has just been established within the Department of geography and sustainable development, led by Nick Hanley. Within the university, we have strong links with the Scottish Oceans Institute. The Department offers an MSc in Sustainable Development, and hosts a growing number of PhD students in environmental economics and related inter-disciplinary studies.

This project is funded by BBSRC, and is run jointly by the universities of Stirling, St Andrews, Cambridge and Aberystwyth. It is using economics, mathematics, ecology and epidemiology to create models of the spatial spread of invasive diseases and management responses to them within a landscape.